WHAT IS CRREBRAL PALSY: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a term that refers to a group of disorders affecting a person’s ability to move. It is caused by an injury to the brain or by abnormal brain development during pregnancy. It is a permanent life-long condition‚ but generally does not worsen over time. Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in childhood TYPES: There are four main types of Cerebral Palsy‚ each caused by whichever area of the brain is affected and extent of the damage.
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UNIT HSC 2028 Move and position individuals in accordance with their care plan. 1.1 Anatomy: The physical structure of the body. Physiology: The normal functions of the body. When moving and positioning an individual it is important to ensure they are not moved more than their body is capable of‚ as muscles can only move bones at the joint as far as the joint allows. It is also important to move and handle correctly to ensure nerve fibres are not damaged as they are delicate structures and also
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Higher level teaching assistant Diploma course Unit 1 1 How would you build and maintain an effective relationship: with children with young People with adults Building effective relationships with children and young people is essential to their emotional and social growth. Each moment that the teaching assistant and the child interact with one another is an opportunity to develop an effective relationship. There are key strategies and ways of behaving that help nurture affective relationships
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Foot Film Review My Left foot is the true story of a young boy called Christy Brown‚ played by Hugh O’Connor and Daniel Day-Lewis‚ Christy is born into a poor working class family in Dublin‚ Ireland‚ with a physically disabling condition known as cerebral palsy. Considered a vegetable and using his only functional limb(his left foot) Christy becomes a very successful writer and artist with the help of his strong willed mother and teacher. I personally really enjoyed this film‚ I liked the way it was set
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choice‚ but the experiences I have had with nurses is what made me feel the desire of becoming a nurse. No one understands what a nurse actually does until you or a family member becomes a patient. I started to gain interest when my sister with Cerebral Palsy kept getting hospitalized for different complications such as chronic pancreatitis and gastrointestinal complications. During her stays at the hospital I got the privilege to meet many bright nurses who made the biggest difference in not only
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Ma Antoinette B. Rios Weekly Assignments: Week 2: Movie Review MY LEFT FOOT… March 15‚ 2013 True to life story of Christy Brown‚ who was born June 5‚ 1932 in Crumlin‚ Ireland diagnosed and suffered cerebral palsy‚ condemned by people and assumed to be confined in the convalescent for fear that the family‚ would not be able to care for him. Instead Christy’s parents took and cared for him at home‚ not only accepted him as normal boy but as part of the family. Inspired by this‚ He grew up
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The Themes of My Left Foot Cerebral Palsy "When I hear somebody sigh‚ ’Life is hard‚’ I am always tempted to ask‚ ’Compared to what?’" -Sydney Harris One of the themes in My Left Foot is Christy Brown’s struggles with Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is a disease that is caused from birth. Premature babies are most at risk for the disease‚ and most that are born with it do not cry in the first five minutes of birth unlike normal babies. The cause of the disease is still unknown like many "birth
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Autobiography‚ “The Letter A” by Christy Brown‚ He shares a turning point in his personal life starting as a newborn in the Rotunda Hospital on June 15‚ 1932. After going through difficult struggle in Brown’s life‚ He was pronounced that he has cerebral palsy and was not normal like the rest of the other human beings; however‚ the only person to believe that there was a chance for him to be like the rest of the others were his mother. She was very persistent that Brown was able to be the same like
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deformities that I’ve never even heard of. All of it has to do with the brain development mainly. If something were to go wrong with you and it could be just a small little incident that occurs with your brain then it goes all down hill from there. Cerebral Palsy appears in infancy to early childhood and permanently affects the body movement and muscles‚ but it doesn’t worse over time. Some people think that this deformity is caused by problems of the muscle or nerves‚ but it’s not. It is actually caused
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family impact on his life? Christy Brown was born in 1932. He was one of 22 children born into a large‚ poor Irish family; he was one of the thirteen that were able to survive. He was different to his other siblings because he was born with cerebral palsy and was unable to control his speech or his movement‚ apart from his left foot. He used his left foot to communicate with his family‚ and also used it to paint and type. It gave him a lot of confidence and joy in his life. At the time when
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